Truck.



PA'TENTBD APR. 28,1908.

S. A. WILSON.

TRUCK.- APPLIOATION nun JUNB'IS. 1907.

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SAMUEL A. WILSON, OF PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN.

TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A r-i1 28, 1908.

Application filed June 15, 1907. serial No. 379,223.

- T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. WILSON, a

-citizen of the United States of America, to-

sidin r at Petoskey, in the county of Emmet and btate of Michigan, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Tru'cks, of

which the follow ng is a specification. This invention relates to trucks of the hand operated type, and one of the princi al objects of the same is to provide means or from their keepers to provide convenient means for lifting the truck and the piece of baggage upon the same and carrying it toits place of destination.

In handling large trunks it is found extremely difiicult to carry the trunk up a heavy for a sing e person to carry. Moreover the handles provided on trunks are often weak and many times become detached from the trunk. Under these conditions it is diflicult to get a hand hold on the trunk for carrying itupstairs.

' One of the principal objects of my invention is to providea truck to overcome the difficulties referred to. I

In the accom an'ying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of a hand operated truck made in accordance with my invention, and showing the handle bars projected in position for use.-

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the truck showing the handle bars retracted. Fi 3 is a detail side view of one of the handlebars. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the barrel or keeper for the handle bars.

Referring to the drawing for a more particular description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates the side bars of a hand operated truck mounted on wheels 2, said truck being of the ordinary construction.

Mounted on each of .the side bars 1 at a rovided it should be too v point near the front end of the truck is a barrel or keeper 3 provided with a flange 4; which is secured by screws or other suitable fastenin 's 5 to the side bars 1. The barrel 3 is provided with a lon itu dinal slot 6, and at the up er end of said s ot is a cross slot 7 having a ownwardly extending branch 8. The

handle bars 9 are fitted to s de in the barrels 3, said handle bars each having a projecting lug 10 adapted to slide in the slot 6 and to be lockedin its retracted position when the lug 10 is located in the branch 8 of said slot.

When the handle barsiare retracted within the barrels 3, the truck may be used as an or dinary truck. When a heavy trunk or other piece of bagga e is to be transferred to" a room in a hoteI, the trunk may be placed u on the truck and the handle bars 9 extend-- 6080 that one person can gras the handle bars 9 and proceed up the stairs while the other person can graspthe handles 11 and under these conditions the trunk can be readily carried upstairs and deposited in the room;

My invention is of com aratively simple construction, and adds but ittle to the or1gi nal cost of the truck, while the invention is particularly convenient for the purpose reerred to.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

A hand operated truck mounted on g'hcels and provided with forwardly extensibl handle bars comprising keepers secured to the side bars of the truck, and each provided with a lon itudinal slot and a branch slot, extensible andle bars mounted to slide in said kee ers and provided wit-h a lu to slide in said s ot and branch, substantiafiy as described.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. WILSON. Witnesses J. W.-W1LooXEN, C. E. FRENCH. 

